Dear Mr Rajiv Srinivasan, Your article unnecessarily drags a correlation between present success of South India in engineering sectors with retention of its distinctive cultures, language and cuisines by totally ignoring scientific justification. Every Indian is proud of South India for its distinct culture, heritage, language and cuisine in social point of view; however, there is no justification of your theory to its recent success in engineering and science based industrial boom. Your theory can not explain about the historical success of USA, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Norway, etc. In Indian context it also totally fails to explain industrial boom of West Bengal in 1950s, that of Maharastra and Gujrat in 1980s & 1990s. In business and commerce, Maharsatra and Gujrat are still ahead of many South Indian states. Even you have ignored other social index by just focusing on going industrialization in engineering sectors, mainly fueled by IT & BT. Northern states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat are quite ahead of AP, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu (except Kerala) in many social index .....(continue innext posting)
